Category: photography

Cloud tassel

On By CarynIn Craft, photography, Sky

Every year I make bookmarks for my youngest’s teachers. The teachers love them, and my youngest gets enthused about ideas. This time she wanted herself flying through the sky, so we took her picture laying on a bench, and I Photoshopped her onto a sky with fluffy clouds (since she chose to wear her fluffy cloud sky shirt). But what to do for the tassel? I went digging through my stash, looking for white felt, but instead found some poly batting. I could work with that. To make the clouds, I cut out a oblong of batting, then melted the edges with a candle flame to reinforce the edges and make it more cloud-like.

Melting the edges of poly batting
Poly batting “clouds”
Bookmark with cloud tassel

I attached the “clouds” to the bookmarks with a length of pearlized cotton. For this blog, for safety sake, I blurred out her name and face. The bookmarks that went to the teachers were not blurred!

Snow

On By CarynIn photography

Our temperatures recently plummeted (along with most of the country), but here it brought a dry snow, the kind that doesn’t stick, but whirls in the wind, dancing as it gets caught in the currents. I have not seen this kind of snow before in Texas, and it took me back to Colorado, which snows below freezing often. The flurries started on our way home, and we decided to take a less crowded back road. This barn was nestled in the curve of the road, and despite the temperatures, I had to get out and take a photo. (It wasn’t a completely deserted road, I was asked by a passing motorist if everything was OK.)

Old Red Barn in the snow

Not an entire waste of time

On By CarynIn Cats, photography

It is getting harder and harder to catch unfixed cats from my neighbor’s colony. I sat out for four hours one day and didn’t see a single un-notched right ear. I know there is a short haired black cat that roams the meadow, I’ve seen it on the trail cam, but it either doesn’t like tuna in oil, or knows when I am watching. It wasn’t a completely wasted day; I took my camera with me and did a fixed cat photo shoot. So now you get cat photos and memes. You’re welcome.

Mr Tom
Cats in conversation “You won’t believe what she said next…”
Cats staring at me. “Do you mind? This is a private conversation”

Third Anniversary

On By CarynIn photography

Yesterday marked my three-year anniversary for this blog! In tribute, I made a glass “3” … digitally. I found a pretty glass bottle, took a picture of the bottom, and used Adobe Fresco to manipulate the image. The original number on the bottom of the bottle was 08, which I masked off and enlarged, then erased bits until I had a 3. Adding a few highlights and blending helped bring out the number, while still looking like it was pressed into the glass.

Glass anniversary